View from the Potting Shed

A few months back I sent a friend of mine, Peter, was looking for a book about building websites. So I sent him my copy of HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible by Bryan Pfaffenberger et al.
I didn’t really use it very often, relying now on the O’Reilly definitive guides for XHTML and CSS. […]

Remember the website, Is it Christmas.com, that I discovered about a month ago?
Well, it is. It is Christmas, yes!

God our Father,
in this night you have made known to us again
the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
confirm our faith and fix our eyes on him
until the day dawns
and Christ the Morning Star rises in our hearts.
To him be glory both now and for ever.
Amen

This afternoon I went for my shortest but probably most expensive cycle trip ever. I took my bike to St Andrews, but unfortunately I wasn’t riding it at the time.
Around 15:00 I set off on my bike, cycled about 100 yards to the main road and stopped for a car to pass. Stood […]

Photo of the interior of St Salvator’s Chapel (photo by Suny Brockport)
Here’s the text of my homily from last night’s carol service at St Salvator’s Chapel, University of St Andrews.
It was a real privilege to preach at such an event, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was nervous before hand. Really nervous; my mouth went dry, […]

Got home from the carol service last night (more about that in a future post) to discover that we had no telephone or broadband connection: no dial tone.
A quick call to BT Faults (0800 800 151 — omit initial zero if calling from a mobile phone) revealed that the problem lay at the exchange, and […]

On Saturday I got the chance to check out the Apple iPod Touch at my friend D’s house in Edinburgh, and I have to say that overall I was impressed.
D really wanted me to see if I could connect it to his wireless broadband connection and with no manual, or recent experience of the Apple-style […]